Identifier: neareastdalmatia00hich (find matches)
Title: The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Hichens, Robert Smythe, 1864-1950 Guérin, Jules Vallée, 1866-1946, ill
Subjects: Dalmatia (Croatia) -- Description and travel Greece -- Description and travel Athens (Greece) -- Description and travel Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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La photograph. copyriKht. by rnaerwnn<l cV IlKierwoDil. N. i . THE ENVIRONS OF ATHENS nature. Are there not royal angers which flame outof the pure furnaces of love? This noble womanseems to me to be the present glory of Eleusis. The mountainous island of Salamis, long andcalm, with gray and orange rocks, lies like a sentinelkeeping guard over the harbor of the Piraeus. It isso near to the mainland that the sea between the twoshores looks like a lake, lonely and brilliant, with thetwo-horned peak called the throne of Xerxesstanding out characteristically behind the low-lyingbit of coast where the Greeks have set up an arsenal.Whether Xerxes did really watch the famous battlefrom a throne placed on the hill with which his nameis associated is very doubtful. But many travelerslike to believe it, and the kind guides of Athens arequite ready to stiffen their credulity. The shores of this beautiful inclosed bit of sea arewild. The water is wonderfulh^ clear, and is shotwith all sorts of

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